Spiders in the station. What's your remedy?

[arayat]

In only 3 weeks my rain sensor was arrested a spider's nest. I have read that others have the same problem.

Probably most weather station are affected by nesting insects. There must be some long-lasting solution for it.

I don't want to go on the roof every two weeks and spray the sensors.

Any ideas?

Marc

[nitrx]

there are a lot of topics about this issue you can use the search option.. https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/search.php? ... ds=spiders

[Solorize]

I just bough a sieve from a local DIY outlet and cut it into small
pieces and then glued the pieces to the bottom of the rain gauge
body, where the holes are to stop the spiders from climbing inside.

I still have spiders webs around the rain gauge, but not in it
anymore. So the gauge works 100% all the time now.

Hope this helps.

[WoodburyMan]

I've tried many solutions, none have worked for me. Things are to determined to nest inside it. Problem is the web down from nearby trees and land right on top of the sensors and go in them. They love to web up the cups of the wind gauge. I just deal with it and clean it out weekly in the summer, spring, and fall. Most of the time the spider webs aren't enough to stop the rain gauge from working. Then in the winter I have to de-ice the thing..

[Lynwood]

Found a piece of old perforated zinc sheet in the garage. Removed the bucket from it's bracket, cut the zinc to size, fitted it under the bucket and re-fixed to the bracket. Problem solved.